The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-07-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON. ID. c.. July 4th, 1887.
Comptroller of the Treasury, Trenholm, III
the matter of the suspension of the Fidelity
National Bank of Cincinnati, has acted with
4 prompnesS and vigor becoming the dignity
and responsibility of the Government, and
the catastrophe is not without its lessons and
uses. as it shows the rnquestioned superiority
OF our National banking system over all 9TH
ers in the world, for ours is being rapidly rec
oenized as the model for most civilized ma
tons When. for instance, this bank suspend
ed, what man in the United States stopped
| for a moment to examine whether or not he
| had one of its bills realizing the fact that II
| all the banks Of the country were to break in
day. the Government would be fully respon
sible as long as 4 United States bond is good
for It's face value, and NEST of them are worth
I a great deal more.
| There is quite ripple in the s!eat and
good Civil Service Commission over some
what emhittered disagreement about the ques-
| ton of paving the expenses Of the several To-
| cal civil service boards willie on 1heiI recent
! uuketing visit to this city, but | hardly think
the controversy will be as important as the
proyerbial temp s. in tea pot. How sad to
see that even this august body IS subject to
the same nfi,milies of temper as are ordinary
people,
The change, il the different Departments
| incident 10 The beginning Of the new fiscal
year were not numerous or imp ortant' Tween
| ty Treasury clerks were dismissed. also sew
en- in the Quarter Master Generals Office and
| forty employed in the Government Printins
Ofice--most of the discharges being made on
account of tie appropriation bill failing to pro-
vide for a continuance of the incumbentS
| The orl + consolidating revenue districts
went int o effect at the same time and also the
20 per cent reduction in salaries of Assistant
| District Attorneys there were few minor
clerical chang~s. in nearly all tie Depart
ments.
| Under the beneiiceut methods OF our hon
est and upright Democratic Administration
the reduction Of the pl b &c debt continues
steaGilv-the amount for the month OF June
being about 81, ZOO, 900, which is a pretty
good showing.
- clel Ks in the Quarter Master Cener-
ais Office who were examined under the
new Civil Service rules, six men and two
women failed to attain the minimum of -
| ont Of a possible 100. The following fact is
regarded Of much significance by the Com
mission. Before the examination, The Quar-
| ter Master General lad made markings for
efficiency and kept them secret, for compari-
| son with those OF the examiners AID 1t turned
out that both marking were substantially the
samoa result highly satisfactory TO the Com
mission, as it tends to diSproye the charge OF
favolilism in :hc ratings
During the last fiscal year the Pension Of
flee issued III $40, certificates, which is said
10 be the best shown. ever made by the bu-
| reau. 1t is also said that there is not case
IN the Pension Office that has not been eN-
amined in that time and the proper action ia
ken TO prepare it for final settlement-a record
that is exceedingly CRAFTY ing to the officials OF
! that bureau.
\ statement prepared by the Treasury De-
| partment shows that in the month OF June,
there was an increase of )2,6G4,S $40, in the CIR
culation and a decrease of 81, l52,93l of the
cash in the Treasury. The principal increase
| in circulation was in silver certificates and
United States notes and the principal decrease
| in the Treasury cash was in gold and silver
| certificates, United States notes and NATIONAL
bank notes.